Type-writing machine.



PATENTED FEB. 12, 1907.

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TYPE-WRITING MACHINE I Specification of Letters Patent.

. Patented Feb. 12, 1e07,

Application filed September 8, 1903. Serial No. 172,358.

To all whom it may concern:

Be'it known that I, BURNHAM C. Snortdent of Elizabeth, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey,'have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type- 0 Writing Machines, of which the following is a t This invention relatesto, the manner of y a mounting the type-bars of type-writing maound necessary to sep'a- 3 rate the ty pe-bars by far greater intervals at the sidesthan at the center oi' the system; 11

but this is objectionable because by extendeoines necessary to increase the angles of the types to the type-bars still further, thereh y not only consuming more room, but also t making it more diificult to guide the types by the usual means at the printing point.

The object of my invention is to provide more room and better clearance for the types having radial slots type-bar hubs. upon a curved fulcrum-rod l4, whi

d in a curved slot rod 14 is skewed, whereby the type-bars are or toward the type-bar system.

and overlap one another at the sides of the in other system lies a trifle in nor type, whereby clearance is tween the types, and

sually an upper-case and a lower case letter. he type-bars are mounted in a segment 12 13, in which workthe e type-bars ar pivoted ch is seator provided in e segment. It will be understood that y"depressing the key-levers the sublevers re rocked forwardly and through the links 15, formed pull the type-bars up to print.

It will be observed in less than half a circle being inclined unwardly and rearwardly, and

hence away type ends of the bars lie in a correspondingly- I skewed are, as will be un from the type-bar system. The

derstood from Fig. inclining inwardly The types e at gradually-increasing angles to the typears beginning at the center of the system the ends of the type-arc system. Each type is also slightly staggered with relatio11 to'the next type by reason of he skewing of the type-bar fulcrum-rod or I 7 type at the sides of the rear of the adjoining insecured bethe necessity of the words, each at the sidesof the system without unduly exusual excessive spacing between the t etending the type-bar are. bars at the sides oi the system is avoided.

In the drawings formingpart of'this s eci- It will be observed that the angles of the fication; Fi ure 1' is a central lon itudinal I types and bars are such that by drawing the g-machine embodying my present improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan of a slotted type-bar segment.

ig. 3 is a projection showing the relative type-bars and ype i in the several views like parts are identifiedby like signs.

the type of machines illustrated the by a top p ate 3, over which runs a carriage bearinga pl their upper ends they a system of reartype-bars 10, each wardly-striking radial type '11, comprising carrymg a ,multiple outer type-bar rearwardly a clearance between the types mg a great lateral so may not only be spaced evenness throughout the may consequently be mounted within a sh series of segmentally-arranged trifle as much can be secured in the usual way by providaration of the tcy eorter arc than when the-arc is not skewed. The construction may also be defined as a type-bars that re horizontally or substantially horizontally disposed when at rest and the pivotal ceriters of which are situated in an inclined plane that extends upwardly and center of the svstem or that rearwardly from type-bars at-the the horizontally- 1G pivotal centers of the roc disposed type-bars have their pivotal centers I arrangeda progressively greater distances from a vertical plane coincident with the front face of the platen as the center of the system of type-bars is approached.

Preferably the type'bars are of approximately equal length, although my invention is not limited thereto.

\"v hat l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Pamnt, is

1. In a type-writing machine, the combination with a sysLeni of type-bars, of a segmerit-having slots in which the hubs oi said type-bars work, and. a curved iulcrun'i-rorh upon which said type-bars are pivoted; said rod being skewed relarivel y to the direction of the slots, with the ends of the rod directed away from the type-bar system.

2. In a front-strike writing-machine, the combination with a system of rearwardlystriking'a'adial type-bars, of a segment hav ing radial slots in which said typebars work, and a curved skewed fulcrum-rod on which said type-bars are pivoted; said rod lying in a groove provided in said segment, said roove and rod being inclined. rearwardly from the bottom to the upper POX'LlOll oi the segment; and each type-bar being provided with a muhiple type.

3, In a front-strike writing-maclflne, the

combination with a system of rearwardlystriking radial type-bars, of a segment havl ingradial slots in which said type-bars work, l and a curved skewed fulcrum-rod upon which K said type-bars are pivoted; said rod lying in 1 a groove provided in said segment, said 1 groove and rod being inclined rearwardly; from the bottom to the upper portion of the segment; each type-bar being provided \Vltll l a multiple type, and said type-bars being api proximately equal in length, and being l mounted at approximately equal intervalsl throughout the system. l

4. in a type-writing machine, a system of radially-a-rranged typebars, and a curved, l skewed pivot-wire on which said type-bars l are pivoted. 11. l 5. in a type-writing machine, a system of radially-arranged type-bars, and. a curved, 1

skewed pivot-wire on which said type-bars are pivoted, the type ends of said bars lying in skewed positions corresponding to the skew of the pivot-wire.

6. In a type-writing machine, the combination of a system of radial type-bars; a curved, skewed. pivot-wire on which said type-bars are pivoLed; and a multiple type upon the end of each type-bar, said types lying at gradually-increasing angles to the type-bars from the center to the sides of the system, and overlapping one another at the sides of the sysiein. and each type. being slightly staggered with relation to the next.

7. In a type-writing machine, the combinalion of a syslem of type-bars of approximaLely equal length; a curved pivot-wire formed as a skewed are and. on which said type-bars are pivoted, the ends of said are I being inclined away from the type-bar sys.

tein, and the type ends of the bars lying in a correspondingly-skewed are whose ends in eline toward the type-bar sysiein and a multiple type upon the end of each bar, said types lying at gradually-increasing angles to the type-bars from the center to the sides of the system, and overlapping one another at the sides of the system, each being; slightly s1 age-cred with iela ion to. the next by reason of the skewing of the pivot-wire.

8. Ina front-strike wr1t1ng-machine, the

combination of a system of rearwardly-s trikmg radial type-bars; a t ype-b ar segment with radial SlULS therein in which said type-bars work; a skewed wire contained in a groove in the segment and on which said type-bars are pivoted, each type-bar carrying, a multiple type, the types lying at gradually-increasing angles to the type-bars from the center to the sides of the sysem, and overlapping one another at the sides of the system.

Signed at the borough oi Manhattan, city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 5th da of Septemher, A. n. 1903.

BURNHAM C. STIGKNEY. Witnesses:

K; V Donovan, M. WELLs. 

